Saturday, 23 February 2008

Darren's Girlfriend

Isn't it interesting that when creative people try and make a living they are thought of as selling out, but when we don't have money and can't pay for things we are not responsible or unsuccessful or something to that effect.

Anyone that starts to get their career going deserves to do so. Now please go to my store and buy a t-shirt (wink)

Cartoonist takin' it to the streets

I'm a cartoonist among other things. Growing up in New York(the Bronx and Brooklyn) I went on a high school day trip to the New York Daily News where I met the late great editorial cartoonist Frank Evers. He took a liking to me and saw I wanted to learn.
Every Saturday after that I would go to the News building and learn from him. He taught me what he called "the art of the gag". Humor is really found in everyday life and it's a matter of representing it in an either clever, sarcastic, ironic, blatantly obvious, or simply light fashion to amuse the reader or to make a point that can be found to be amusing in its presentation.
I draw pretty fast straight into the computer so I work a lot in film doing storyboards and animatics.
A few years ago I spent some time in Barcelona and really became interested in street art by the likes of Miss Van, London Police and Banksy among many others. So as I travel a lot I put up street art.
In the case of Spatz people seem to like that little bird and sometimes take the art down( i usually make big stickers that can be peeled off), fold it up and take it with them. very interesting.